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Ruckus Teams with Smartac to Build Smart Stations for China’s Railway System

Ruckus Smart WiFi Networks Being Deployed at Over 300 Passenger Railway Stations in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Lanzhou as part of Massive Systemwide Upgrade

SINGAPORE – (COMMUNICASIA – Booth BL3-01) – June 2, 2015 – Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) announced today that it is working with Smartac Group China Holdings Limited (Smartac) to help build Ruckus Smart WiFi networks covering more than 300 passenger stations for three major railroad systems in China—Beijing, Guangzhou, and Lanzhou. The ongoing deployment is part of a long-term project to upgrade wireless networks across China’s vast passenger railway transportation system. These Ruckus Smart WiFi networks will not only provide a high-performance wireless Internet access experience for railway passengers, they will also provide comprehensive, real-time passenger data for railway station operators. The entire project is designed to make China’s railway passenger stations “Smart stations.” These new Smart stations are part of the emerging global trend to create Smart cities. The concept involves using state-of-the-art communications technology that improves municipal operations and services to enhance the way of life for residents and visitors of major urban centers.

Tweet this Smartac Group is one of the most experienced ‘new-generation’ mobile Internet gateway providers in China. As one of the largest service providers of wireless networks for China’s railroad passenger stations, Smartac business includes 379 of the busiest stations in two municipalities, Beijing and Tianjin. Smartac also provides network services to 11 other provinces and autonomous regions (Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shandong, Shaanxi, and Shanxi), serving 2 billion passengers a year.

China has a huge number of daily railway passengers, armed with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. These commuters are increasingly demanding free, reliable WiFi service in order to connect to the Internet and perform various tasks whenever, wherever. This requires a smarter WiFi network infrastructure to provide more reliable service across China’s massive railway system.

Smartac chose Ruckus Wireless as its wireless network infrastructure vendor because of the company’s expertise in helping to successfully build large-scale, high-density and high-capacity Smart WiFi networks like these. Ruckus was also chosen for its ability to provide stable, reliable WiFi performance in environments that experience high levels of radio frequency (RF) interference.

“The quality, performance and reliability of Ruckus products and technology were the most important reasons Smartac chose Ruckus as its partner,” said Jason Kwan, executive director of Smartac Group. “Ruckus access points have a proven track record of successfully handling high levels of concurrent RF traffic in environments with strong interference, such as China’s railway stations. We were very comfortable and satisfied in choosing them to help us deploy these new wireless networks across the country.”

According to data from the Guangzhou South Railway Station, during peak hours, the station has approximately 1,300 concurrent users. Highest data usage has been measured at up to 36 Gbps per hour, which has reached 2.2 Terabytes in 24 hours.

Ruckus Smart WiFi networks deployed by Smartac not only meet the demands of China’s passenger railway users for reliable, high-performance WiFi, they are also enabling Smartac to generate additional revenue by partnering with advertising agencies to further utilize these networks.

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